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YOUR WASHINGTON
AND YOU!
A WEEKLY
REPORT
from
KARL MUNDT
SENATOR FROM SOUTH DAKOTA
United States Senate
"FOR A FAIR CHANCE
FOR A FREE PEOPLE"
VOL. XXIII - No. 27 - FOR RELEASE JULY 17, 1961
NUCLEAR TESTS AND RED CHINA: Although the
situation on Berlin occupies foremost attention in the
Capital, two other questions are nagging foreign policy experts. One deals with
resumption of underground nuclear testing and the other concerns our policy on
admission of Red China to the UN. In October of 1960, while he was campaigning for the office he now holds, President Kennedy said, with respect to negotiations on testing of nuclear weapons, that he intended "to prescribe a reasonable
but definite time limit within which to determine whether significant progress is
being made". No such "time limit" was extended by Mr. Kennedy, but with negotiations at a standstill and with the conference table being used as merely another
Communist propaganda vehicle, leaders in both political parties are calling for a
resumption of such testing as a matter of self-preservation since it is a possibility the Russians have resumed such tests.
On admission of Red China to the UN, considerable dismay was caused
over the reported change in US policy in which we not only would no longer oppose
bringing the Red China question up for debate in the UN but also consider a "two-
China" policy in which both Red China and Nationalist China would be seated in the
UN. While Secretary of State Rusk has now stated the United States is "not in favor" of admitting Red China, enough smoke has curled into public light to indicate
the "fires of change" have been started in the State Department toward switching
from our firm policy of non-recognition the past 11 years.
On both of these issues, what WE DO NOT NEED in what obviously is a
new era of the Cold War IS VACILLATION as the Communists continually probe
for weak spots in our armor. A deadline on negotiations reaching a sound, productive point on nuclear testing should be issued, and we should reaffirm most
strongly our stand against admission of Red China to the United Nations.
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BERLIN AND INCREASED SPENDING: The President is reported considering an
increase of several billions for military purposes in view of the threat to Berlin.
If such expenditures prove necessary, I shall support them as I have other defense appropriations. However, there are some alarming notes which become
more vital from a budgetary standpoint. As Senator Williams of Delaware pointed
out the other day, the JFK Administration is spending $110 million MORE per
week than it is taking in. Red ink spending promises to be up considerably for
fiscal 1962; some 35,000 additional employees already have been added to the Federal payroll; another 40,000 are anticipated during the year. President Kennedy
has called for sacrifices, and he could set a wonderful example for the country
if, in a call for increased military expenditures, he would also direct that for
EVERY DOLLAR EXTRA to go for military purposes, a dollar would be taken
from non-defense programs instead of increasing the deficit. This is the kind of
sacrifice everyone can understand and I am certain would heartily applaud.
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#
SPRAY FROM THE POTOMAC: The current rate of deficit spending, at some
$110 million PER WEEK, is almost four times as much as the annual budget for
the State of South Dakota. . . The truth of South Dakota's slogan "Land of Infinite
Variety "finds ample demonstration in the fact that while our state is afflicted by
a severe lack of moisture in some sections we are also rated as the Number One
state in the nation in the per capita ownership of boats and motors. . .

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2009-07-06

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YOUR WASHINGTON
AND YOU!
A WEEKLY
REPORT
from
KARL MUNDT
SENATOR FROM SOUTH DAKOTA
United States Senate
"FOR A FAIR CHANCE
FOR A FREE PEOPLE"
VOL. XXIII - No. 27 - FOR RELEASE JULY 17, 1961
NUCLEAR TESTS AND RED CHINA: Although the
situation on Berlin occupies foremost attention in the
Capital, two other questions are nagging foreign policy experts. One deals with
resumption of underground nuclear testing and the other concerns our policy on
admission of Red China to the UN. In October of 1960, while he was campaigning for the office he now holds, President Kennedy said, with respect to negotiations on testing of nuclear weapons, that he intended "to prescribe a reasonable
but definite time limit within which to determine whether significant progress is
being made". No such "time limit" was extended by Mr. Kennedy, but with negotiations at a standstill and with the conference table being used as merely another
Communist propaganda vehicle, leaders in both political parties are calling for a
resumption of such testing as a matter of self-preservation since it is a possibility the Russians have resumed such tests.
On admission of Red China to the UN, considerable dismay was caused
over the reported change in US policy in which we not only would no longer oppose
bringing the Red China question up for debate in the UN but also consider a "two-
China" policy in which both Red China and Nationalist China would be seated in the
UN. While Secretary of State Rusk has now stated the United States is "not in favor" of admitting Red China, enough smoke has curled into public light to indicate
the "fires of change" have been started in the State Department toward switching
from our firm policy of non-recognition the past 11 years.
On both of these issues, what WE DO NOT NEED in what obviously is a
new era of the Cold War IS VACILLATION as the Communists continually probe
for weak spots in our armor. A deadline on negotiations reaching a sound, productive point on nuclear testing should be issued, and we should reaffirm most
strongly our stand against admission of Red China to the United Nations.
#
#
#
BERLIN AND INCREASED SPENDING: The President is reported considering an
increase of several billions for military purposes in view of the threat to Berlin.
If such expenditures prove necessary, I shall support them as I have other defense appropriations. However, there are some alarming notes which become
more vital from a budgetary standpoint. As Senator Williams of Delaware pointed
out the other day, the JFK Administration is spending $110 million MORE per
week than it is taking in. Red ink spending promises to be up considerably for
fiscal 1962; some 35,000 additional employees already have been added to the Federal payroll; another 40,000 are anticipated during the year. President Kennedy
has called for sacrifices, and he could set a wonderful example for the country
if, in a call for increased military expenditures, he would also direct that for
EVERY DOLLAR EXTRA to go for military purposes, a dollar would be taken
from non-defense programs instead of increasing the deficit. This is the kind of
sacrifice everyone can understand and I am certain would heartily applaud.
#
#
SPRAY FROM THE POTOMAC: The current rate of deficit spending, at some
$110 million PER WEEK, is almost four times as much as the annual budget for
the State of South Dakota. . . The truth of South Dakota's slogan "Land of Infinite
Variety "finds ample demonstration in the fact that while our state is afflicted by
a severe lack of moisture in some sections we are also rated as the Number One
state in the nation in the per capita ownership of boats and motors. . .